Rick Mullin is a journalist and painter whose book-length poem SOUTINE, on the painter Chaïm Soutine, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2012. His poetry collection COELACANTH was published by Dos Madres in 2013, as well as SONNETS FROM THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE in 2014. He is the author of the book-length poem Huncke , published by Seven Towers, Dublin, Ireland, in 2010, and two chapbooks, Aquinas Flinched (Modern Metrics/Exot Books, New York, NY, 2008) and The Stones Jones Canzones (Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY, 2012). He works as a business editor at Chemical & Engineering News , the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society. His paintings are in collections in the U.S., Europe, and the British Virgin Islands.